The Museum of Modern Art’s annual film preservation showcase, To Save and Project, will conclude with a screening of Charlie Chaplin’s “Shoulder Arms,” a comedy from 1918 featuring Chaplin as an American soldier during World War I. The film was shot with two cameras, resulting in multiple versions created by Chaplin for different markets, with varying quality due to degradation and technical issues during subsequent re-releases. MoMA has been working on a restoration of the original 1918 version, using surviving prints to reconstruct the film as closely as possible to what American audiences saw at the time.
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